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Fintech Focus Podcast | Managing a Workforce in a Regulated Environment
Fintech Focus Podcast | Growing a Workforce in a Regulated Environment
The Standard Formula Podcast | Dissecting the Solvency Capital Requirement
The Standard Formula Podcast | Investment Rules for Insurers and Reinsurers
Fintech Focus Podcast | Are Regulators Dictating Fintech Deal Terms?
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding the UK’s Matching Adjustment Regime
The Standard Formula Podcast | Group Supervision Under Solvency II
Fierce Competition Podcast | Letter From London: The Rise of UK Class Actions and the Competition Appeal Tribunal
The Standard Formula Podcast | Developments on the Horizon for the UK Change-in-Control Regulatory Regime
JONES DAY TALKS®: Class Actions Worldview Guide: Part 1–The United States and European Union
Season 2 Episode 5- Defense Trade Down Under
Cornerstone Research Connects: The CAT Judgment in Trucks
The Standard Formula Podcast | The Edinburgh Reforms: Big Bang 2.0 or Thoughtful Change?
Life with GDPR - The ABB Enforcement Action from a UK Perspective
Life with GDPR - Changes to UK Data Protection Regime
Life with GDPR - Clearview AI Fine by the ICO
The UK GDPR Children’s Code
Life with GDPR - Data Transfers from EU/UK to US
The Compliance Kitchen - UK’s Second Wave of Sanctions on Russia
The decision confirms that an arbitration agreement will be upheld in the face of insolvency proceedings only if it can be shown that the petition debt is genuinely disputed on substantial grounds....more
The Reform will extend tenors and reduce borrowers’ fees to encourage commercial bank lending into energy transition projects. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has agreed a landmark deal...more
News of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank in the United States has dominated headlines over the last few days. Late yesterday, Friday, 10 March 2023, the Bank of England made an announcement about the status of Silicon...more
The UK’s National Audit Office (the “NAO”) has reported that an estimated 11% - a total of £4.9 billion out of £47 billion issued - of the 1.5 million loans granted under the Government’s COVID-19 Bounce Back Loan Scheme (the...more
The FCA has published Primary Market Bulletin No.37 (PMB) with the findings of its review of conflict queries since the publication of Technical Note 701.3. In general, there have been fewer conflict queries but the review...more
The FCA’s Policy Statement published on 25 October 2021 provides feedback to its May 2021 consultation (the Consultation) and sets out the final rules and guidance for the new authorised open-ended fund regime to invest in...more
On 27 April 2020, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) published a statement (the “statement”) on whether the guarantees provided by the UK Government (through the British Business Bank) under the Coronavirus...more
Further to the Chancellor’s announcement on April 3, 2020, of the introduction of the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS), the CLBILS that is aimed at larger U.K. businesses is now live and the...more
While the UK Government, for the most part, has been praised for taking quick, decisive action to limit the impact of the COVID 19 economic shock for consumers and some UK companies, the measures announced to date excluded a...more
The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) was launched by the UK government on 23 March 2020 to help businesses to keep operating during the COVID-19 pandemic....more
Material adverse change provisions in credit agreements are under much heightened scrutiny in the current circumstances. In the current environment, both corporates and their lenders are trying to assess a fast-moving...more
In our client alert titled "Government-backed initiatives to support businesses impacted by the Coronavirus," we gave an overview of various measures announced by the UK Government to help UK business through the economic...more
The parties entered into a joint venture to launch commercial satellites into space from an ocean platform, which venture ultimately failed. As a result of certain guarantees, Boeing paid $449 million to cover loans made to...more
The first signs of spring remind us that EU Exit day is fast approaching but a deal between the EU and the UK is proving elusive. If passporting rights are lost what impact will that have on existing and new corporate loans...more
With a little more than a month to go until the UK is due to leave the EU, a number of leading retailers and wholesalers have announced that they are building up stock in case Britain exits without a deal. Companies such as...more
The English High Court has provided guidance on implying a Socimer/Braganza duty of rationality into contractual discretions in a commercial context, concluding here that no duty of rationality should be implied or construed...more
Unbowed by personal attacks from the White House, Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivered remarks to the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday that markets used as an excuse to jump nearly 600 points by the closing bell. ...more
In the recent case of Kevin Taylor v Van Dutch Marine Holding Ltd and others, the High Court decided that the exercise of existing rights by a secured creditor should not be regarded as a disposal by a defendant, and as a...more
A number of recent English court decisions have recast the test for determining when a contractual provision may be unenforceable under English law as a “penalty clause”. The rule against penalty clauses is particularly...more
The Financial Conduct Authority has published a letter addressed to the CEOs of firms operating a loan-based crowdfunding platform about concerns that the platforms may be facilitating loans to lending businesses that do not...more